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The Frenchwoman who shot dead Edouard Stern, the billionaire banker, was a venomous manipulator driven by hatred and greed and not by passion, as she claimed, a jury in Geneva was told yesterday.

Near the end of the trial of Cécile Brossard, 40, the prosecutors and lawyers for Mr Stern’s family sought to demolish her claim that her 50-year-old lover had tormented her into an uncontrollable passionate rage in his flat in Geneva in February 2005. She has described how, dressed as a dominatrix, she fired four pistol shots into him during a sex game in which he wore a